The ringleader behind the prank, James O'Keefe (made famous from his highly edited videos of ACORN last year), reportedly sent Burns emails outlining his plans to try to seduce CNN journalist Abbie Boudreau.

CNN is making a documentary on O'Keefe and his friends that is scheduled to air next month.

According to CNN, O'Keefe planned to get Boudreau on a boat filled with sex toys ("a palace of pleasure" he called it) and videotape himself seducing the journalist. The prank backfired when a woman working for O'Keefe's Project Veritas warned Boudreau about the gag.